ISC Daily News Summary

Sunday Times
The Sunday Times reflects on last week’s announcement from the Charity Commission. ISC’s Chief Executive David Lyscom is quoted, as well as: Simon Northcott (head at St Anselm’s); David Williams (head at Highfield Priory); John Claughton (chief master of King Edward’s in Birmingham). Reference is also made to a number of other ISC schools.
The Labour lifer at war with private schools (Sunday Times)

Observer
Large feature in this weekend’s Observer looking at the benefits of a private education. David Lyscom, ISC’s Chief Executive, is referenced and quoted extensively.
How private schools ensure a life of privilege for their pupils (Observer)

Sunday Express
GCSE examiners have been told by “desperate” education chiefs to grade this year’s papers gently, it is claimed. A maths teacher who works as a marker told the Sunday Express: “It was made very clear to me that C grades were more acceptable than D grades and that any time a student even starts off in the right direction, they were to be rewarded. Dr Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, is quoted.
GCSE examiners are told: Go easy (Sunday Express)

All national newspapers
Widespread reports on swine flu over the weekend, including reports that more than 50 British schoolchildren have been told by Chinese health officials that they face up to a week’s quarantine in a Beijing hotel after nine were diagnosed with swine flu during a Government sponsored trip to China.
British children quarantined over swine flu in China (Daily Telegraph)
Swine flu (Daily Mirror)
Ninth UK pupil in China 'has flu' (BBC News Online)
Schools could stay closed after summer break if swine flu cases surge (Times)

Widespread coverage
Alan Milburn, the government's social mobility tsar, is to launch a strong attack on ministers' failures to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds into universities and the professions. Mr Milburn is expected to recommend that ‘private schools should be forced to share their facilities with poor children to bring down class barriers’.
Private schools may have to share facilities (Daily Telegraph not online)
Social mobility tsar Alan Milburn to attack Labour for failing disadvantaged pupils (Daily Telegraph)
Fees for students who live at home should be axed – report (Guardian)
Struggle for the lost class (Sunday Telegraph not online)

Guardian
Thousands of teenagers wanting to re-sit failed A-levels this year will be forced to pay for lessons at private crammers or teach themselves, after schools cancelled revision classes, it has emerged. A-level courses changed last September and most schools will refuse to teach the old syllabus to students returning for re-sits in the autumn, the Guardian reveals.
Students re-sitting A-levels denied revision classes (Guardian)

Daily Telegraph
Higher education used to be exciting and guarantee a good job. Not any more. The Daily Telegraph reports.
Has university taught us anything? (Daily Telegraph)

Whitehall is drawing up plans for deep cuts in the higher education budget that in the worst case would slash a fifth from university finances, funding officials have disclosed. If implemented, they would lead to the widespread closure of university departments and could cause some institutions to shut altogether.
University cuts (Sunday Times)

Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail
Parents will be given barely any say in the content of sex education classes under Government plans to make the subject compulsory for children as young as five, a report warns today. Schools are currently free to draw up their own policies on sex education and are obliged to consult parents. But proposals unveiled by Children's Secretary Ed Balls earlier this year to make the subject mandatory in primary and secondary schools will inevitably limit parents' influence, says a report from the Family Education Trust.  
Five year-old students to 'get compulsory sex education' (Daily Telegraph)
Parents 'will have no say' over sex education in schools (Daily Mail)

A selection of further education coverage in the press this weekend:
Ruined by the lies of children: The teachers destroyed by the false allegations of pupils who know they're untouchable (Daily Mail)
4-year-olds get finance lessons (Daily Mirror)
Schools to axe 3,000 teachers (News Of The World)
Exams are a vital lesson (Sunday Express)
Think Tank: Please sir, you’re not qualified to teach (Sunday Times)
Asbestos activists to carry out tests on schools (Independent)

Daily Telegraph
A French lesson for Britain's independent schools (Daily Telegraph)

BBC News Online
Two of the astronauts who took part in the first Moon landing 40 years ago have called for renewed efforts to send a manned mission to Mars. At a rare public reunion of the Apollo 11 crew, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins said Mars instead of the Moon should be the focus of exploration.
Moon astronauts urge Mars mission (BBC News Online)